One False Move - Vayakhel & Pekudei - Rabbi Dovid Kaplan

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And it's a double-header. Um [clears throat] you you know what? I'm not sure. Mattos-Masei might be longer. I'm pretty sure Vayakhel-Pekudei. Whatever it is, it's a long lighting. It's a long lighting. Now, it says like this, Vayakhel Moshe has called us Bnei Yisrael. Moshe gathers the entire Jewish people. Vayomer aleihem, "Eleh hadvarim asher tzivah Hashem la'asot." This is what Hashem has commanded to do. Moshe is now going to give the command. Up until now, Hashem has spoken to Moshe about what's supposed to take place by the Mishkan. And now Moshe's going to give the people And now Moshe's going to give the people the command to bring the materials for the Mishkan. The building and the materials for the Mishkan. But up until now with Hashem, what we had in parshas Terumah was Hashem telling Moshe Rabbeinu. Now, here you'll notice that it starts with the word Vayakhel, which it doesn't say anywhere else in the Torah that Moshe gathered the people together. He gathered them together. Why does it say Vayakhel over here? So, if you turn back to parshas Ki Sisa by the sin of the golden calf, very interestingly on page um on page 4 uh uh 494. Top of page 494, where the people of the pasuk begins on the previous page where the people saw Moshe was late coming down, and then it says Vayik'hel ha'am al Aharon. The people gathered against Aharon. Ah, that

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